Re: IE8 & Netflix Pop-up

Check for adware.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

wrote:
> I'm using IE8 on WinXP and when I go to a number of sites, I get a
> Netflix pop-up! I have Pop-up Blocker on, but get this pop-up a lot.
> I looked thru Pop-up Blocker Options, but do not see anything to block
> certain pop-ups - there is the option to allow pop-ups on certain
> sites, but I do not have Netflix listed in there.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions on how to disable this pop-ups would be
> appreciated.
>
> Charliec

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> >On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:18:30 -0400, Leonard Grey <>
> >wrote:
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>>Check for adware.
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>>Leonard Grey
>>Errare humanum est
>>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm using IE8 on WinXP and when I go to a number of sites, I get a
>>> Netflix pop-up! I have Pop-up Blocker on, but get this pop-up a lot.
>>> I looked thru Pop-up Blocker Options, but do not see anything to block
>>> certain pop-ups - there is the option to allow pop-ups on certain
>>> sites, but I do not have Netflix listed in there.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts/suggestions on how to disable this pop-ups would be
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Charliec
>
> I do that on a regular basis - I manually run Spybot, SpySweeper, and
> Malwarebytes and have NAV 2010 running in real time. I have a
> subscription to AdAware, but it gave me so many problems, that I
> uninstalled it.
>
> So far, they have not found anything!

You might try the solution posted by "randtm" in the following thread:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...5-d5280b48508e

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



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> Charliec